Seer of ghosts & weaver of stories

(You are very much not forgotten)

Any day, if you had the freedom to do anything in 2015, no worries about time or money or anything, what are the top three things you would do?—escritoireazul

I would return to London, have my life back the way it was.

(I would eat, drink, travel, and write. I would collect art. I would visit everyone I've always meant to visit, and that's a lot of you. I'd keep editing for Strange Horizons; maybe I'd attempt to write a novel, assuming I'd finally have the time to do it on top of all of the other writing I squeeze into what precious free time I have, which I refuse to give up. I don't want much more out of life than to be back in the United Kingdom and able to do nothing but write. I think that's all I've ever wanted, and it took me thirty years to figure that out. The three years since then, i.e. 2012 through 2014, have been difficult, and I still don't know if Boston is a place in which I can be happy. However, I have no choice but to be here for the moment, and I'm waiting to hear back regarding an opportunity that very much hope will be offered to me. It would mean a definite improvement in my day-to-day existence, certainly.)

* For a full list of publication credits in poetry and fiction, see my profile.

ABOUT

A.J. Odasso's poetry has appeared in an eclectic variety of publications, including Sybil's Garage, Mythic Delirium, Jabberwocky, Cabinet des Fées, Midnight Echo, Not One of Us, Dreams & Nightmares, Goblin Fruit, Strange Horizons, Stone Telling, Farrago's Wainscot, Through the Gate, Liminality, inkscrawl, Battersea Review, Barking Sycamores, and New England Review of Books. Her début collection, Lost Books (Flipped Eye Publishing), was nominated for the 2010 London New Poetry Award and for the 2011 Forward Prize, and was also a finalist for the 2011 People's Book Prize. Her second collection with Flipped Eye, The Dishonesty of Dreams, was released in 2014. She holds degrees from Wellesley College (B.A. in English), University of York (M.A. in Medieval Studies), and Boston University (M.F.A. in Creative Writing). She has served in the Poetry Department at Strange Horizons since 2012.